Sunday, May 4, 2025

Be on the Right Side of History

 Non-violence leads to the highest ethics,
which is the goal of all evolution.
Until we stop harming all other
living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas Edison


Socrates (c. 470-399 BC)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Gautama Buddha (c. 5th to 4th century BCE)
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)


There can be no doubt as to which side is right
and which side is wrong, for compassionate
defense of life is a force of good and sadistic
mass destruction of life is a force for evil.

Paul Watson


The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating
animals has been recognized by all mankind
during all the conscious life of humanity.

Leo Tolstoy


Wrong does not cease to be wrong
because the majority share in it.

Leo Tolstoy


All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer


Insanity in individuals is something rare -
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche


If you want to know where you would have
stood on slavery before the Civil War,
don't look at where you stand on slavery today.
Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson


'Never again' is not about what others shouldn't
do to us. It is about what we shouldn't do
to others. 'Never again' means that we must
never again perpetrate mass atrocities
against other living beings.

Alex Hershaft


Our grandchildren will ask us one day:
Where were you during the Holocaust
of the animals? What did you do against
those horrifying crimes? We won't be
able to offer the same excuse for
the second time, that we didn't know.

Helmut Kaplan

Albert Schweitzer

As long as man continues to be the ruthless
destroyer of other living beings he will never
know health or peace. For as long as men
massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Pythagoras


As long as people will shed the blood of innocent
creatures there can be no peace, no liberty,
no harmony between people. Slaughter
and justice cannot dwell together.

Isaac Bashevis Singer


As long as there are slaughterhouses
there will be battlefields.

Leo Tolstoy


I'm in favor of animal rights as well as human
rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln



Animals are the main victims of history, and
the treatment of domesticated animals
in industrial farms is perhaps
the worst crime in history.

Yuval Noah Harari


Man's inhumanity to man is only
surpassed by his cruelty to animals.

George Bernard Shaw


Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable
network of mutuality, tied in a single garment
of destiny. Whatever affects one directly,
affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Every man is a creature of the age in which
he lives and few are able to raise themselves
above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire


One day the absurdity of the almost universal
human belief in the slavery of other animals
will be palpable. We shall then have
discovered our souls and become
worthier of sharing this planet with them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Warrior 🛡️

When evil men plot, good men must plan.
When evil men burn and bomb,
good men must build and bind.
When evil men shout ugly words of hatred,
good men must commit themselves
to the glories of love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Adversity is the trial of principle.
Henry Fielding


You are in danger of living a life so comfortable
and soft, that you will die without ever
realizing your true potential.

David Goggins


How we treat the vulnerable
is how we define ourselves.

Russell Brand


We can forgive the Arabs for killing our
children. We cannot forgive them for
forcing us to kill their children.

Golda Meir



Don't expect justice where might is right.
Plato


Whoever fights monsters should see to it that
in the process he does not become a monster.
And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,
the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche


People seem good while they are oppressed,
but they only wish to become oppressors in
their turn: life is nothing but a competition
to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell


I object to violence because when it appears
to do good, the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma Gandhi


A gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor a man perfected without trials.

Seneca


The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world
loves us only when we are to be pitied.
If we have to have a choice between being dead
and pitied, and being alive with a bad image,
we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Golda Meir


If the Arabs put down their guns there would be
no more fighting. If the Israelis put down theirs
there would be no more Israel.

Golda Meir


You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
Sophocles


Violence brings only temporary victories;
violence, by creating many more social
problems than it solves, never brings
permanent peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi


There is only one thing worse than fighting with
your allies, and that is fighting without them.

Winston Churchill


If you don't stand for something
you will fall for anything.

Malcolm X


It can ruin you life only if it ruins your character.
Marcus Aurelius


Peace will come when the Arabs will love
their children more than they hate us.

Golda Meir


You're only lonely if you're not there for you.
Phil McGraw


Those who tell the stories rule society.
Plato


There are many causes I would die for.
There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Mahatma Gandhi


God and Satan alike are essentially human
figures, the one a projection of ourselves,
the other of our enemies.

Bertrand Russell


Violence brings only temporary victories;
violence, by creating many more social
problems than it solves, never brings
permanent peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


You always become the thing you fight the most.
Carl Jung


You can chain me, you can torture me,
you can even destroy this body,
but you will never imprison my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi


The man who has no inner life
is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri-Frédérik Amiel


Every war when it comes, or before it comes,
is represented not as a war but as an act of
self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell


When the student is ready the teacher will
appear. When the student is truly ready
the teacher will dissappear.

Lao Tzu


Nothing happens to any man which
he is not formed by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius


We are only as strong as we are united,
as weak as we are divided.

J.K. Rowling


At his best, man is the noblest of all animals;
separated from law and justice
he is the worst.

Aristotle


When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre


God grant me the serenity to accept the things
I cannot change, the courage to change
the things I can, and the wisdom
to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr


People are sent to teach you.
If you don't learn you'll keep
making the same mistake.
Learn the lesson and be free.

Mastin Kipp


We don't see things as they are,
we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin